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Nice Animated Tribute to Steve Jobs
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[Rafael Amador] “Apple’s line is more about pushing desires (beauty, exclusivity, distinction) and creating needs. Fashion is the hook now”
beauty – But I’d contend Apple’s Beauty is “anti ornate” It is ultra minimal.
exclusivity – I’d contend to simply so as to be inclusive.
distinction – in a world in which ornate and complexity are pervasive, being simple in design and use might appear “distinctive.” But this is not distinctive in an “elite” sense.[Rafael Amador] “Probably they’ll be able to put his management techniques in papers, but they will leave the best of that guy out of the book..”
Let’s hope not. Alas any such thing can be altered beyond the original creative attempt.
[Rafael Amador] “PS: Lets don’t mistake Steve Jobs with Apple.”
But what makes Apple “different” is what Jobs imbued. It seems so much of it reflected his outlook. In fact I think Jobs himself went through great personal change between his first and second participation at Apple. I think his personal change was very much why Apple part two was in many ways a different company.
I think his staffing and management techniques changed radically and I think that is tied to changes in his personal belief system. I also think his “business” goals changed and this impacted how “products” were developed and designed.
That so many of us can actually “grieve” for “a CEO” is, in itself, an unusual cultural phenomenon. That, for many, goes beyond someone who headed a company that made “shinny trinkets that we coveted.”
I’d ask, maybe half rhetorically” What made this man, his relationship to the company and our relationship to both, so emotionally important?
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Craig my friend, I see madness from a different position.
I live in a place where people is spending one month salary just to have an iPhone. Most can’t afford an internet connexion.[Craig Seeman] “I’d ask, maybe half rhetorically” What made this man, his relationship to the company and our relationship to both, so emotionally important?”
Nothing about computers or management.
Just that he looked like the kind of guy that he would listen to you if you would have the opportunity to talk with him.
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[Rafael Amador] “I live in a place where people is spending one month salary just to have an iPhone. Most can’t afford an internet connexion.”
This is something that must change but that involves another form of change.
Nicholas Negroponte, who started One Laptop per Child is/was a noble attempt at that. His goal was to mass produce a laptop bringing costs down to $100. That governments would buy and distribute so the cost would not be born by the individual. That a massive per to per network would develop to help connectivity. That the laptop would not rely on outside delivery of electricity (it would be either hand cranked or solar charged).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_ChildInterestingly even here Apple offered to help (although I don’t think noted in the above wiki).
https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/13/apple_hires_one_laptop_per_child_security_expert_and_noted_critic.htmlApple has hired Ivan Krstic, the developer of the security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child project’s XO system
Maybe a stretch extrapolation but it may well point to the kind of people Jobs hired.
Nicholas Negroponte, who leads the OLPC effort, told his TED audience in 2006 that Steve Jobs had supported his early efforts building toward what would become OLPC with free Apple computer hardware back in the early 80s. However, when Jobs offered the OLPC project free use of Mac OS X software and engineering help, it rejected Apple’s technology in favor of Linux, a decision supposedly based on the group’s dedication to free and open source software.
Which maybe speaks to Jobs as a person. While one might think such motives are mercenary, it’s interesting that Jobs, who killed the Mac clones, was in the case, willing to offer OSX.
This too has some interesting bits.
https://www.edibleapple.com/2009/12/07/steve-jobs-helped-consult-nicholas-negroponte-on-the-one-laptop-per-child-initiative/
Apple’s business model of selling expensive and premium priced computers is an accepted par of the tech discourse, which makes it all the more surprising that Steve Jobs informally advised and provided feedback to Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the OLPC initiative. OLPC, in case you’re unaware, stands for “One Laptop Per Child”, and is a non-profit organization geared towards manufacturing insanely cheap laptops for use in developing countries.[Rafael Amador] “Nothing about computers or management.
Just that he looked like the kind of guy that he would listen to you if you would have the opportunity to talk with him. “I think it runs much deeper than that. That might make him likable but the attachment runs much deeper I think.
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[Craig Seeman] “[Rafael Amador] “Nothing about computers or management.
Just that he looked like the kind of guy that he would listen to you if you would have the opportunity to talk with him. ”I think it runs much deeper than that. That might make him likable but the attachment runs much deeper I think.”
That at first sight; a plain guy without vanity.
Then the feeling that he was really committed with people. Apple was just a mean of giving his best in this life.
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The fact that he never disputed his portrayal in “Pirates” and then had Noah on stage said to me that he is that guy. Look at the way he deals with adobe, music labels, and facebook. Listen to emplyees talk about making sure they have conversation readying case they get caught in an elevator. He’s intense, driven, and completely unforgiving. I think he’s a driven perfectionist. Perhaps something internally told him he didn’t have much time to vet it all done. I fall a little more into the Ayn Rand camp of what is moral and good and Jobs is simply a modern day Dagny Taggart. And Apples design ethic os definitely Roark. Minimalist, simple, and the beauty is derived by how the form follows function. I think whatever religion he had was completely separate from his business persona. T
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